Think About It

One of the blessings of doing these little daily thoughts is that I get people sending me their own insights. I had one show up in my inbox the other day that reminded me, “An umbrella cannot stop the rain, but it allows us to stand in the rain. Faith in God may not remove our trials, but it gives us strength to overcome them.”. As I pondered this observation, I was led to a discussion that people often have about trauma and crisis. The issue is often broken down this way, “How can a loving God allow bad things to happen to good people?”. There are all kinds of answers to this question – some make sense, while others just seem to muddy the waters. Yet, as I think about this, there are two things that come to mind. First, bad things happen to all kinds of people. They always have and they always will. God has never promised to put a hedge around believers and shelter them from the nature of living in sin-filled world. However, it is the second reality that makes Christianity a